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partisanship

UK/ˌpɑːtɪˈzænʃɪp/UK/ˈpɑːtɪˌzænʃɪp/Canada, US/ˈpɑɹtəzənˌʃɪp/Canada, US[ˈpɑɹɾəzənˌʃɪp]

noun

What it means

  1. countableuncountableAn inclination to be partisan or biased; partiality.

    In this moment of constant campaigning and tribal partisanship, even the courts have had difficulty puncturing the ideological bubbles that Mr. Trump and Fox News pundits have created.

    2023 April 1, Jonathan Weisman, “Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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    We focus on how partisanship and race influence sentencing decisions. Partisanship has been shown to shape many political and social decisions (Iyengar et al. 2019) while racial disparities in sentencing are well-documented (United States Sentencing Commission 2023).

    2025, James N. Druckman et al., Unequal Punishment?: Partisan and Racial Biases in Criminal Sentencing, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2026, page 2

    Synonyms: partisanry

In a sentence

In this moment of constant campaigning and tribal partisanship, even the courts have had difficulty puncturing the ideological bubbles that Mr. Trump and Fox News pundits have created.

2023 April 1, Jonathan Weisman, “Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Where it comes from

  1. Englishpartisan
  2. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  3. Englishpartisanship

From partisan + -ship.

Full entry for partisanship →

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